Chris Petersen
CTO And Co-founder at Scientist.com
Encinitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Petersen is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 17 years of experience building web platforms that accelerate biomedical research. As co-founder and lead architect of Scientist.com he chose the platform stack, recruited and scaled engineering teams, and helped land enterprise customers like Pfizer, AstraZeneca and J&J, turning the company into the world’s largest marketplace for medical research. He blends hands-on engineering (Ruby on Rails architecture) with cross-functional leadership across sales, implementation, finance and fundraising to deliver product vision and commercial impact. Prior roles leading informatics and engineering teams show deep domain expertise in scientific data management, compound registration, and integrating lab workflows with modern web paradigms. Based in Encinitas, he pairs a practical, startup-minded approach with a mission-driven focus on enabling faster, lower-cost drug discovery. A less obvious strength is his history of formalizing development practices and vendor strategy to let scientists concentrate on core research rather than tooling.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (78)
alpaca10
ruby9
language-model9
xai9
external-tools9
extraction9
rust8
mistral8
ai8
ollama8
perplexity8
ruby-sdk8
llm8
cuda8
compile-time7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cpetersen/republic
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:93 commits, 2 branches in 6 months
scientist-labs/parsekit
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
Ruby document parsing toolkit with zero runtime dependencies. Parse PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, and images (with OCR) using a single, lightweight gem. Statically links MuPDF and Tesseract at compile time for hassle-free installation - no system libraries or external tools required.
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 32 pushes in 11 months
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